{"product_id":"shima-sho-yamagushiku-9780771010927","title":"Shima: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA vivid, expansive vision of intergenerational witness and repair.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe village is tilting on its axis. It is turning. All its organs are spilling into the bay.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e is a mosaic of the emotional, psychic, and generational toll that exile from a pillaged culture impresses on a poet and his community. Come to haunt yamagushiku's practice of ancestor veneration are photographs and a narrative that spans his own life and a mythic parallel filled with a voice as spare as it is present, yearning as it is precise. The poet says, \u003ci\u003eI am taking the sharpest stick and poking the root ancestor. I am insisting that if he awakens I will have something useful to say\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpeaking through a cultural amnesia collected between a sunken past and a sensed, ghostly-dreamed future, \u003ci\u003eshima\u003c\/i\u003e anchors this interrogation of the relationship between father and son in the fragile connective tissue of memory where the poet's homeland is an impossible destination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sho Yamagushiku\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0771010923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780771010927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.40d","brand":"Sho Yamagushiku","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44756468400383,"sku":"9780771010927","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ba5d7564-03c6-4bff-9685-32dc215277dd.jpg?v=1706593067","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shima-sho-yamagushiku-9780771010927","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}